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Captured by Robots!
SINCE this week is Metro’s Rocktober issue, allow me to bark about a few upcoming events in downtown San Jose the weekend of Oct. 24/25 that will undoubtedly rock the house in more ways than one. And they don’t even involve music. At least not yet.

On Saturday, Oct. 25, the Singularity Summit, the premier academic conference on the concept of The Singularity, will take place at the Montgomery Theater. By now, most technologists have at least heard of this concept, whether they agree with it or not.

The Singularity is the theoretical inflection point in the development of history—either magical or apocalyptic or impossible depending on which camp you’re in—where computers catch up to human intelligence, overtake our brain power in terms of processing capability and then never look back. ...

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COLUMNS
Silicon Alleys
Captured by Robots!

Style
Recession Proof

Sporting Events
The Silicon Valley Roller Girls are headed your way this Halloween.

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MOVIES
Movie Review: 'Rachel Getting Married'
Jonathan Demme throws a wedding and Anne Hathaway steals the show

Movie Review: 'The Duchess'
Ralph Fiennes, Keira Knightley and the costumes outshine the script in 18th-century memoldrama

Movie Review: 'The Brothers'
The Stanford Theatre in Palo Alto revives a lush Scottish drama set on the Isle of Skye

Movie Review: 'Body of Lies'
Is there a screen big enough for Russell Crowe and Leonardo DiCaprio in one shot?

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